My town just announced the police want to start using Google Glass to help identify people on the street. The lines are really getting blurry here.

Another reason to hate google. Who needs just any random cop knowing who you are at a glance and what your web surfing habits are? OH I'm sorry, I'm making a complaint from the future in the previous sentence.

whosits_112:miss diminutive: I don't know what's more shocking, the feeling of 10,000 volts to the genitals or the fact that I'm no longer remotely surprised by stories of police officers behaving this way.

Hey, some people pay good money to have the feeling of 10,000 volts through their good-time parts...

Ah, maybe that's what I missed. Due to a freak accident as a young girl, she has no sense of smell! Therefore, FarkedOver found the perfect wife. He can continue his habit in secret, and not have her biatch at him. Until she found his butt-cup, that is...

Years ago at my old job they put those cigarette butt tubes outside where I was working. The aholes still flicked them where they wanted to. When they wanted people to clean up the parking lot and common areas of butts they tried to get me into the group to do it. The manager that was forming the group for some reason was getting mostly non smokers to do it. He and I got into it and I told him to get the fark out of my work area and if he had a problem with anything he could talk to my manager. I also told him that it should be him and his smoker buddies cleaning it up. A VP of the company got involved and had only smokers make up the group. That manager always gave me dirty looks after that but couldnt tell me to do shiat.

groppet:Years ago at my old job they put those cigarette butt tubes outside where I was working. The aholes still flicked them where they wanted to. When they wanted people to clean up the parking lot and common areas of butts they tried to get me into the group to do it. The manager that was forming the group for some reason was getting mostly non smokers to do it. He and I got into it and I told him to get the fark out of my work area and if he had a problem with anything he could talk to my manager. I also told him that it should be him and his smoker buddies cleaning it up. A VP of the company got involved and had only smokers make up the group. That manager always gave me dirty looks after that but couldnt tell me to do shiat.

DAR: I still need to work on getting my cell phone to drop video directly to a remote server as cops now days are being trained to grab cell phones.

I hope I never need it, but my phone is set up for that. I installed Bambuser (a free app that streams directly to the server) and set the phone to lock when the sleep button is pressed. I have tested to confirm that the video keeps streaming when that happens. The app is on the main screen. So I can unlock my phone and start shooting video in a few seconds, and it will keep recording whatever is in range until the phone stops working.

miss diminutive:I don't know what's more shocking, the feeling of 10,000 volts to the genitals or the fact that I'm no longer remotely surprised by stories of police officers behaving this way.

Probably the taser. My shock at hearing about police brutality has been gone for years now.

I like to believe that these events happen less often now, and we just have greater access to information.

At this point I just presume all cops are bad and won't even look at one. Except when I feel like that makes me suspicious, and I look at them briefly. Plus I'll never lie to a friend, but I have no guilt associated with lying to cops either. I don't even recognize them as humans anymore.

This is another thread where one can find an explanation for our roid raging paramilitary police force and high incarceration rates, as you can see by half the posts in this thread Americans are fine with the police beating the shiat out of an entire family because someone dropped a cigarette butt on the ground.

ideal outcome. cop tazes nuts of asshole who drops his butt on the ground. tazer malfunctions and bursts into flames in over-reactive cop's hand and lights cop on fire. a rare circumstance of no famly pets being killed in cop/citizen interaction.

Pangea:At this point I just presume all cops are bad and won't even look at one. Except when I feel like that makes me suspicious, and I look at them briefly. Plus I'll never lie to a friend, but I have no guilt associated with lying to cops either. I don't even recognize them as humans anymore.

I think the problem may be that there are a handful out there that feel the same about you.

pkellmey:Pangea: At this point I just presume all cops are bad and won't even look at one. Except when I feel like that makes me suspicious, and I look at them briefly. Plus I'll never lie to a friend, but I have no guilt associated with lying to cops either. I don't even recognize them as humans anymore.

I think the problem may be that there are a handful out there that feel the same about you.

Headso:This is another thread where one can find an explanation for our roid raging paramilitary police force and high incarceration rates, as you can see by half the posts in this thread Americans are fine with the police beating the shiat out of an entire family because someone dropped a cigarette butt on the ground.

The President of The United States of America is debating whether to assassinate ANOTHER citizen without charging them with crimes or affording them due process GUARANTEED in the US Constitution and no one gives a shiat. So cops beating on people is not even going to register with most people. This thread is a perfect example. Lots of GOOD and I'm OK With This just because the headline describes person or people that folks have been trained it is OK to hate. Sound familiar ?

kindms:Headso: This is another thread where one can find an explanation for our roid raging paramilitary police force and high incarceration rates, as you can see by half the posts in this thread Americans are fine with the police beating the shiat out of an entire family because someone dropped a cigarette butt on the ground.

The President of The United States of America is debating whether to assassinate ANOTHER citizen without charging them with crimes or affording them due process GUARANTEED in the US Constitution and no one gives a shiat. So cops beating on people is not even going to register with most people. This thread is a perfect example. Lots of GOOD and I'm OK With This just because the headline describes person or people that folks have been trained it is OK to hate. Sound familiar ?

That's why I like Toronto. Every single city installed garbage can has 3 holes: One for garbage, one for recycling, and one for cigarettes. There is a cigarette disposal on every block in the entire city.

Pangea:At this point I just presume all cops are bad and won't even look at one. Except when I feel like that makes me suspicious, and I look at them briefly. Plus I'll never lie to a friend, but I have no guilt associated with lying to cops either. I don't even recognize them as humans anymore.

I'm not at that point yet. I know eleven cops personally to varying degrees (my old job on a university campus had me interacting with them regularly) and four of them were just decent guys who treated people well and with respect, took pride in their work and at least tried to see where people were coming from. The other seven were raging assholes who treated their badge like a free pass to harass, intimidate and humiliate people legally.

Pangea:kindms: Headso: This is another thread where one can find an explanation for our roid raging paramilitary police force and high incarceration rates, as you can see by half the posts in this thread Americans are fine with the police beating the shiat out of an entire family because someone dropped a cigarette butt on the ground.

The President of The United States of America is debating whether to assassinate ANOTHER citizen without charging them with crimes or affording them due process GUARANTEED in the US Constitution and no one gives a shiat. So cops beating on people is not even going to register with most people. This thread is a perfect example. Lots of GOOD and I'm OK With This just because the headline describes person or people that folks have been trained it is OK to hate. Sound familiar ?

Your false equivalency is bad and you should feel bad.

that's for sure, there's even a thread about that very topic on the politics tab at this very moment if he wants to discuss that subject.